1.  Overview the trade of ARGENTINA in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, ARGENTINA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 13378.2466 million, and were up 51.07% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 58.52% at 7492.5645 million, and imports were up 42.55% at 5885.6821 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 1606.8825 million and up 168.93%.

During the current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's total exports and imports of goods were 104169.6192 million and were up 43.69% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 58215.8690 million and up 38.07%; imports were 45953.7502 million and up 51.52%. The total trade surplus was 12262.1188 million and up 3.59%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, UNITED STATES, INDIA, VIETNAM were ARGENTINA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 17467.2264 million, 14510.9046 million, 7828.0639 million, 3945.1311 million, 3416.9903 million. These values correspond to 16.77%, 13.93%, 7.51%, 3.79%, 3.28% of ARGENTINA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 51.15%, up 42.92%, up 37.91%, up 59.80%, up 18.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, ARGENTINA and the top five trade partners BRAZIL, CHINA, UNITED STATES, INDIA, CHILE are the top five countries/territories that ARGENTINA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's exports to these five countries/territories were 8379.1053 million, 4996.5762 million, 3479.2972 million, 2909.7929 million, 2864.2151 million. These values correspond to 14.39%, 8.58%, 5.98%, 5.00%, 4.92% of ARGENTINA's exports and, respectively, were up 52.50%, up 18.43%, up 38.65%, up 56.76%, up 30.87% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, UNITED STATES, PARAGUAY, GERMANY are the top five countries/territories that ARGENTINA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's imports from these five countries/territories were 9514.3284 million, 9088.1211 million, 4348.7666 million, 2401.2694 million, 1899.3105 million. These values correspond to 20.70%, 19.78%, 9.46%, 5.23%, 4.13% of ARGENTINA's total imports and, respectively, were up 60.32%, up 49.94%, up 37.32%, up 32.89%, up 29.67% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of ARGENTINA was mainly from CHILE, INDIA, NETHERLANDS, VIETNAM, PERU at 2377.9254 million, 1874.4547 million, 1850.1981 million, 1615.3857 million, 1293.7260 million, and up 30.59%, up 50.71%, up 75.36%, down 11.17%, up 33.70%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, PARAGUAY, GERMANY, UNITED STATES, THAILAND at 4517.7522 million, 1465.9765 million, 1338.9051 million, 869.4694 million, 799.6194 million, and up 163.35%, up 22.76%, up 47.72%, up 32.22%, up 138.98%.

Current year until 202109, ARGENTINA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  commodities with hs2 codes, 10, 87, 99, 84, 23, were ARGENTINA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 9702.4583 million, 9076.6429 million, 8507.0859 million, 7610.3311 million, 7379.4944 million, which were up 31.86%, up 64.61%, up 46.10%, up 54.11%, up 46.12% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 9.31%, 8.71%, 8.17%, 7.31%, 7.08% of ARGENTINA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 10, 99, 23, 15, 87 were ARGENTINA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 9687.4739 million, 8024.3806 million, 7323.7871 million, 5533.4222 million, 4287.7235 million. These values correspond to 16.64%, 13.78%, 12.58%, 9.51%, 7.37% of ARGENTINA's total exports and, respectively, were up 31.96%, up 46.01%, up 46.51%, up 69.79%, up 80.19% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 85, 87, 27, 30 were ARGENTINA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 6763.4189 million, 4804.9426 million, 4788.9193 million, 4201.1964 million, 2431.9073 million. These values correspond to 14.72%, 10.46%, 10.42%, 9.14%, 5.29% of ARGENTINA's total exports and, respectively, were up 57.15%, up 43.95%, up 52.78%, up 97.47%, up 50.07% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, ARGENTINA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, ARGENTINA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 14510.9046 million and were up 42.92% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from ARGENTINA to China were 4996.5762 million and up 18.43%, imports from China to ARGENTINA were 9514.3284 million and up 60.32%. The total binational trade deficit was 4517.7522 million and up 163.35%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 12, 02, 29, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 2331.8731 million, 2276.2980 million, 1801.5966 million, 1369.2933 million, 1056.1419 million and makes up 16.07%, 15.69%, 12.42%, 9.44%, 7.28% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 51.57%, up 82.32%, down 1.64%, down 1.35%, up 27.43% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 12, 02, 10, 15, 03 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from ARGENTINA, with export values of 1796.9161 million, 1369.2933 million, 787.0537 million, 421.7663 million, 152.9886 million. These values account for 35.96%, 27.40%, 15.75%, 8.44%, 3.06% of ARGENTINA's total exports and were down 1.63%, down 1.35%, up 906.66%, up 82.86%, down 52.03% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 84, 29, 87, 30 were ARGENTINA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2331.4859 million, 2271.1952 million, 1045.3822 million, 459.2129 million, 414.4532 million. These values account for 24.50%, 23.87%, 10.99%, 4.83%, 4.36% of ARGENTINA's total imports and were up 51.55%, up 82.30%, up 26.91%, up 119.81%, up 943.98% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: INDEC